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2012 Retrospective – Part 3

December 28, 2012 at 11:00 AM |

In the third part of our annual retrospective, we take a look at the highlights of May and June, 2012. We had some sad news, the SCOOP and also the WSOP launched.

Poker Players

Isildur1 Wins $548k, Tops April Money List

April 17, 2013 at 5:44 PM |

After topping the January and March online high stakes cash game money lists, Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom now takes the lead in April, too.

Poker Rooms

5050 Poker Ltd Under Liquidation, Players to be Refunded 15% of their Money

July 7, 2012 at 1:06 PM |

5050 Poker Holding AB has officially announced that they are able to refund only 15% of their players’ money frozen on their room accounts. The Holding claims to have been cheated by their subsidiary company 5050 Poker Ltd.

2012 Retrospective – Part 6

December 31, 2012 at 11:30 AM |

In the final part of our annual retrospective, we take a look at the highlights of November and December, 2012. We had FTP reopening, Teufelberger arrested, Bwin’s player pool merging with PartyPoker and more.

Online Poker

Isildur1 and Sauce123 Clash Again - High Stakes June

June 28, 2013 at 7:04 PM |

The epic clash at the $300/$600 PLO tables between Viktor Blom (Isildur1) and Ben Sulsky (Sauce123) gained much attention this Thursday.

Poker Rooms

Partypoker announces new Player Panel

January 16, 2019 at 5:35 PM |

The site says the relaunched panel's goal to improve the communication with the community through its ambassadors.

Poker Tournaments

PCA 2012 Main Event - Faraz Jaka on the Final Table

January 13, 2012 at 1:42 PM |

2012 PCA's Main Event almost came to its conclusion, the 8-handed final table was set yesterday with the chiplead of Faraz Jaka. PokerStars.tv will provide a live stream covering the event.

Poker Players

PTR Introduces Poker Coaches Comparison

November 21, 2010 at 5:56 PM |

PokerTableRatings.com launched a new page that lists active poker coaches from various sites. You can sort and compare them according to several statistics: their BB/100, earnings, number of hands played and the training site they are coaches of.

Poker Rake Races

$7,500 RedKings Cash Race - 1-31 March

February 27, 2013 at 7:06 PM |

Rakerace.com and RedKings Poker are coming up with something big in March: in addition to the $5,000 private offer, our players are eligible to participate in the 2 x $3,750 cash race, which is organised in cooperation with other affiliates.

Poker Tournaments

WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic - James Dempsey is Champion

December 12, 2011 at 6:53 PM |

The British James Dempsey won his first WPT title at the Five Diamond World Poker Classic.

Poker Players

Nanonoko's 2011 Trip to Macau - Video

November 8, 2012 at 1:23 PM |

Randy 'nanonoko' Lew won last year's APPT Main Event. The multitabler PokerStars pro shot a very exciting and informative video of his trip to Macau, which you can watch now right here, at Rakerace.com.

Zynga Poker is Now Available on Android Phones

December 23, 2010 at 3:00 PM |

Zynga Poker, the popular play-money poker application based on Facebook now offers Android users the on-the-go poker application they have been offering for Apple iPhone and iPod Touch users since 2008. Finally.

Poker Rooms

Portugal to join the Franco-Spanish tables

February 19, 2018 at 6:54 PM |

Last Friday Portugal has published Regulamento n.º 115/2018, the technical-standards framework, in the Official Journal. The publication means all regulatory obstacles to join the Franco-Spanish tables are gone.

Online Poker

Chris Ferguson’s Accounts and Attacking the FTP Deal

January 27, 2012 at 2:47 PM |

According to Subject: Poker, Chris Ferguson has distributed close to $60 million from Full Tilt Poker’s accounts to ones held by Pocket Kings for him.

Poker Tournaments

WSOP 2013 - Main Event - Day 1A is Concluded

July 7, 2013 at 5:06 PM |

World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2013 Event #62 $10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event has launched with Day 1A. 943 entrants registered to the tournament and 584 of them survived to return on Day 2, with Evan Panesis in the lead.